Chapter 363. to convey to and confirm in the city of Aurora, in the county of Kane, and State of Illinois, a small island in Fox River, located within the limits of said city
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CHAP. 363.— An Act to convey to and confirm in the city of Aurora, in the county of Kane, and State of Illinois, a small island in Fox River, located within the limits of said city.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Aurora, Ill.Title to island in Fox River confirmed to. That the right, title, and ownership of the city of Aurora, in Kane County, State of Illinois, to the land hereinafter described are hereby confirmed, and all the right, title, and interest of the United States to said land are hereby granted and relinquished to said city of Aurora.
Said land hereby granted is described as follows:Location. Island in Fox River, lying and being in the northwest fractional quarter of section numbered fifteen, in township thirty-eight north, of range eight east of the third principal meridian, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stone set in the ground at the northwest corner of the northeast fractional quarter of said section fifteen; thence west, on the north line of said section, five chains and eighty links, to a point on the east bank of Fox River; thence south fifteen degrees and fifteen minutes west, three chains and twenty links across the east branch of Fox River to a point on the north end of island and place of beginning; thence south twenty-four degrees and fifteen minutes east, four chains and eighty-eight links; thence south eighteen degrees and thirty minutes east, five chains and forty-five links; thence south twelve degrees and thirty minutes east, one chain and forty-four links; thence south one degree and thirty minutes east, two chains and fifty-one links; thence south fifteen degrees and thirty 544 minutes west, ninety-two links; thence north thirty-six degrees and forty-five minutes west, three chains and forty-eight links; thence north sixty-seven degrees and forty-five minutes west, one chain and thirty-two links; thence north thirty-two degrees and thirty minutes west, three chains and sixty-eight links; thence north twenty degrees and forty-five minutes west, five chains and fifty links; thence north twelve degrees and fifteen minutes east, two chains and forty links; thence north sixty-four degrees and thirty minutes east, one chain and thirty-six links; thence south eighty-seven degrees and thirty minutes east, one chain and fifty-three links to place of beginning, containing, in all of above description, five and seventeen one-hundredths acres of land; variation five degrees east.
Sec. 2. That upon the approval of this act the Commissioner of thePatent to issue. General Land Office shall issue a patent for said land to said city of Aurora, and said patent shall inure to said city of Aurora and its successor forever. Approved, March 3, 1887.